What would a world without poverty look like?
Firstly, every single child in the world would be able to go to school because now everyone can afford it. That sounds fair doesn't it? almost makes me cry seeing that every single kid in the world is entitled to education and doesn't have to work to earn a living no more.
We would have people able to pay for medical expenses that they were not able to pay for before. Medicines will be available to everyone who needs it, because now everyone has the money to treat themselves.
Everyone can eat the type of food they want, no more rummaging through bins and boxes to find food to survive. Just sit down in a cafe order something and pay for it. Want to watch a movie, but couldn't afford? now you are able to afford it. It's been noted that people with more wealth have generally being equated with having higher levels of life satisfactions.
Look below at the chart to get an idea:
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction#income
However despite wealth not being a problem, there may be other problems that take place:
- Wastage - of course everyone now has money, so their spending on necessities will only last for a while and they will then start to spend on things that they don't need.
- No need for entry level jobs - There will not be a need for entry level jobs, because those jobs were operated by people who were in poverty or labour workers. Things such as mining will need to be automated and most other low level jobs will be handed out to robots.
These are the only ones I could think, if you have more please post in the comment section below.
I wouldn’t say that the world strikes a balance between poverty and utopia currently nor do I agree that a utopia is the opposite of poverty. It is a facist myth that poverty is needed, there are no justification for the poverty that the system puts some people through just to maintain profit and monopoly. This doesn’t mean everybody should be rich or have luxuries disproportionate to what they contribute to society but there are the food and resources in the world guarantee everybody the basics.
In a capitalist system poverty is need as a motivating factor to move up in the wealth ladder, it provides people a reason to increase their wealth or take this job or that job or even contribute.
Well it would be a pretty piss-poor system if people need to suffer to get motivated. People are motivated by many things, but the people whom I am sure are very motivated to ‘move up’ lack the opportunities.
It's messed up world after all, people in poorer countries use getting out of poverty their motivation to use whatever little opportunities they have to move up.
So, thank god for corporate oppression because it saved the third world from sitting on it's arse doing nothing?
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You clearly don’t understand the philosophy behind motivation nor wealth creation. Let’s just agree to disagree.
As person that has come out of poverty, it’s not a choice to be subjugated to corporate oppression it’s a need for for survival.
Well, no if I am wrong as you suggest then please explain to me how and why I am wrong instead of just telling me I don't understand. Your post and comments seemed to posit the idea that poverty is needed or nobody would ever be motivated to do anything. I simply expressed the idea that this is not the case. I am not saying that poverty does not motivate people, what I am saying is that it is not only motivator we have at our disposal and we should not praise poverty as some kind of redeemer because it routinely fails to work out for literally billions of people decade after decade.
I am not praising I’m simply accepting the fact that it counts as a motivator, in your point of view it might not be but in my point of view it is motivation and yes it shouldn’t be the only motivator because it isn’t.
When you are poor and you make ends meet you have to start searching for ways to make money to make ends meet, people born into poverty don’t have a choice which makes them more motivated than a person not born into poverty.